Cinte fortificate in Calabria in età viceregnale: gli interventi demaniali tra permanenze, memorie e dismissioni

Research on fortified walls is marginally attended and not very systematised. More attention is generally paid to castles, less to city walls, architecturally relevant structures for the history of fortified architecture and urban history. Such research is stimulating in the territories of the Kingdom of Naples during the Viceroyalty (1503-1707), particularly in the South and in Calabria, the field of action of a strategy based on a network of defence to protect the Crown and ‘Christendom’, where the state-owned fortified complexes, often of older origin, were in some cases updated according to the new canons dictated by experience gained in the field and sanctioned by the treaty. The research of which a first piece is presented here, concerning state-owned Calabria, is part of a PRIN 2022 PNRR - Missione 4, Componente 2, Investimento 1.1 - entitled ‘Mapping fortified cities in early modern Southern Italy. Digital tools to investigate architectural heritage', which involves the Universities of Naples, lead partner, and those of Reggio Calabria and Bari, whose objective is to map, document and make available in an increasable open-access database the results of research on fortified cities in continental southern Italy (Campania, Apulia, Basilicata and Calabria) between 1503 and 1707.